What’s in your (camera) bag?

November 10th, 2008
What's in your (camera) bag?

The most recent assign­ment at Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy School is a lit­tle bit dif­fer­ent this time around.

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Learning Light

September 10th, 2008
Learning Light

In my ven­tures to learn all about pho­tog­ra­phy, I have been focused on light (pun intended) this past week, specif­i­cally, learn­ing how to prop­erly use avail­able light and how to break the basic rules of using light in pho­tog­ra­phy. Since my main edu­ca­tional means is just tak­ing pho­tos as much as I can and see­ing what comes out and what doesn’t, time has not been on my side in learn­ing the basics of rec­og­niz­ing when the light is right for shoot­ing. I have got­ten frus­trated over the last sev­eral weeks numer­ous times when I have been out shoot­ing hop­ing for great results only to be dis­ap­pointed when I look at my pho­tos later and most if not all are just not pleas­ing mostly due to light­ing issues.  Some are blurry because of not enough light and some have blown out high­lights because of too much light. Oth­ers have bright spots or poor reflec­tion from harsh light or don’t come out at all from using wrong set­tings (or when I am in a hurry to catch a fleet­ing oppor­tu­nity I for­got entirely to change set­tings before press­ing the shut­ter release). With this recent post from This Week in Pho­tog­ra­phy and my par­tic­i­pa­tion in this assign­ment last week from Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy School, I now have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of light as it per­tains to mak­ing great pho­tographs and why I have been very dis­sat­is­fied with the out­come of my photos. 

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